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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
HISTORY
GILLIS/WOODRUFF BIOS
EFFECTS PHILOSOPHY
DESIGN
SCULPTURE
LAB WORK
ANIMATRONICS
PAINTING & FINISHING
ON SET
ADI
AVP
CREW LIST
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This book is dedicated to the many talented special effects artists who
inspired us when we were kids, our parents who helped us along the way
when we were young, and our own children who stayed behind while we
went off to Prague to play with our monsters. Thank you Camille, Devon,
Grace, Bella, David, Taylor, and Connor.
And to our wives, Alaine and Tami, who were with us and supported us
along the way and through all the years as we each matured from prom
dates to grown men who play with puppets, this book is lovingly dedicated.
AVP
TM
& ©2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
All Rights Reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, xerography, and videography recording without written permission from the publisher,
Design Studio Press.
All images in this book are copyright ©2004 Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation.
Book design, captions, and digital tongue removal by Chris Ayers.
Photography by Jurgen Volmer, Tom Woodruff, Jr.,
Chris Ayers, and that Czech guy who wasn’t supposed
to be taking pictures anyway.
Printed in Hong Kong
First Edition, August 2004
Published by Design Studio Press
8577 Higuera Street
Culver City, CA 90232
www.designstudiopress.com
E-mail: Info@designstudiopress.com
Softcover ISBN 0-9726676-5-2
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004107546
Hardcover ISBN 0-9726676-6-0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Just as a motion picture cannot be made with-
out the hundreds of people both onscreen and
behind the scenes, this book is the result of the tire-
less and talented efforts of one of the largest crews
we’ve ever had the pleasure to work with, the
names of whom appear later in this volume. It is
their work, which is always art turned into commod-
ity, as it must be for movies. It is their work, which
must be summoned up in sixty and seventy-hour
workweeks, sometimes overnight, sometimes
through the weekends. It is their drawings and
sculptures and paintings. It is their molds and
mechanisms and rubber skins and lycra-reinforced
suit closures. It is their
art
, which is presented on
the pages that follow.
We also must point out that we would not be
such a big part of these films if not for our friend
and mentor, Stan Winston, who showed us the way
and foolishly turned over the keys. If we didn’t say
it then, we say it now, “Thank you, Stan, with love.”
In addition, the decision of Twentieth Century
Fox to produce this film must be acknowledged
with thanks to, among others, Tom Rothman, Jon
Davis, and Mike Hendrickson. Without the film,
there would be no book and you would be looking
at your empty hands right now.
We had the support of Tom Hammel and Chris
Symes during the four-month shoot in Prague and
we will still “exchange Christmas cards” with Adam
Goodman, figuratively, if not through the mail.
Thanks also to Scott Robertson of Design
Studio Press, and Debbie Olshan and Twentieth
Century Fox Publicity for making this book possible.
And finally, in the last position before the pic-
ture starts, we thank Paul W. S. Anderson for hav-
ing us on his picture and for his enthusiastic gasps
from behind the monitors as our creatures per-
formed for the cameras. His love and excitement
for the
Alien
and
Predator
genres was infectious
and reminded us that, for all the long hours and
hard work, we really are lucky to be a part of all
this. We were glad to deliver the “general unpleas-
antness” he requested....
FOREWORD
If you stop long enough in this life to look around, you realize we
are trapped in the same generation. The people you know and have
come to respect are IT. The only it.
Like old tintypes, we all will eventually fade into oblivion, but not the
works we leave behind.
Tom, Alec, and I have spent years on smoke-filled sets, being
chased or pursuing something from one town or planet to another,
wrapped in creations that would scare the life out of Satan himself.
The writer utters the mythology, the actor legitimizes it, and Tom
and Alec make the director’s choices physically tangible. Capable.
They are the Masters of the Impossible.
AVP
is the latest...Herculean. Stretched to the limitless.
It has been an honor to enter their domain.
– Lance Henriksen
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